I also caught a female of this this species on a sunny day very early this year - 8th April, in Clanna Woods, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire - and I haven't seen one (or any other Eupeodes) since the ...

Having posted my first ever Didea sighting (D. intermedia) earlier this week, 4 days later and less than half a mile away, I caught up with the more common D. fasciata. It was seen in the Forest of D ...

I see in the field guides that this is a widespread and common species, so I'm unsure why it has taken so long for me to see my first, a male, yesterday, 20th August, at Clanna Woods and Ponds, W. Glo ...

Over the last 2 or 3 days here in the Forest of Dean, West Gloucs, I've seen S. vitripennis (4) and E. balteatus (9) for the first time this year, so if it is a migration they have reached this far we ...